Guadalajara: Mariachi, Markets & the Home of Tequila: the places

Twin neo-Gothic spires anchoring the four plazas of the historic center

Colonnaded 1866 opera house — check for Ballet Folclórico Sundays

UNESCO orphanage-turned-museum with Orozco's 'Man of Fire' — lie back and look up

Latin America's largest indoor market — eat where the locals crowd

The assembly-line torta ahogada — pick your salsa bravery level (several branches citywide)

Goat birria with handmade tortillas in the old Nine Corners quarter

'Chapu' — the tree-lined spine of the world's coolest neighborhood

Neo-Gothic mosaic façade with an hourly apostle parade in the clock tower

A block of cantinas around a bandstand — mariachi at sunset with a cazuela

Home of the tiny pilgrim Virgin, with a Huichol art museum next door

The Pueblo Mágico that named the spirit, ringed by UNESCO agave fields

Latin America's oldest working distillery, pouring since 1795